AUSTRIAN RIDERS CONQUER ALL THE FIRST PLACES ON THE PODIUM OF KRKAENDURORAID2018
Primosten – Austria is the Nation that has dominated the 8th edition of the Krka Enduro Raid, finished yesterday in Primosten and organized by the TRX Raid Experience. The Austrian riders have conquered all the first positions of the four different standings and just one German and one Polish riders have interrupted the Austrian dominion. Benjamin Diesel is the winner of the overall and of the Primosten Trophy 2018. The Austrian on Ktm has beat all the adversaries imposing himself at the end of two difficult days made even more binding from a summer climate almost tropical. Diesel together with more then 300 riders has faced all the Red section of the track in the two days conquering the podium: second position for Herbert Lindtner, from Austria, on Yamaha and third for the polish Jakub Maslany on Ktm. The Twin category (13 at the start) assisted to the triumph of Wilfried Schmidtmayr, also him Austrian, in competition with a Bmw R 1150G : he won, thanks to an incredible crono in the last special test on the beach, of course not easy for the twin bikes, on Srdan Jablan, German (Bmw F800 GS) and on Bernhard Schmidtmayr, Austrian (Bmw R 100 GS SWT). The Over 50, also this year with many participants, exactly 132, it closed with a total Austrian podium. The three riders, although each with a motorbike of different brand comes from the same country: the winner of this class has been Josef Köck on Gas Gas 300 that has beaten the winner of the Croatia Rally 2017, Ferdinand Kriedl on Ktm and Manfred Gamler on Sherco. 'Dulcis in fundo' the Lady class with another podium totally composed from Austrian women and all on Ktm. The new mother, Veronika Dallhammer has triumphed on Esther Kammer and Sibylle Freitag, respectively second and third.

The Monday after the race is every time important because you have to check all the operations: riders, race, public, track... The 8th edition of Krka Enduro Raid has been fantastic, with 564 riders of the 600 engaged, coming from 6 different Country: all of them are came back to home satisfied of this week made of enduro, stones, rocks, and dirty road. “It has been really a wonderful edition – said Marco Borsi, patron of TRX with Claudio Verna and Giampaolo Cincotto in this event – in every way. We realized during this week that the participants are changing: we have had a great number of young riders and this fact asks for an operation of adjustment. The amateurs are still here, and they love to measure themselves with the Krka Enduro Raid, but the arrival of younger people now need a different level, higher then now”. Considering the track, beautiful and difficult Borsi adds: "It is not easy to find new road every year because after having traced I must have the authorization from the local authorities and unfortunately we haven't always and in this way we can't go where I would want. We look for, every year, to invent something, conserving departure and arrival from Primosten, and for this 8th edition we have found some fantastic passages, but for the future we must not stop improving us”. This is our first motivation”. While Marco is preparing to open the Croatia Rally, scheduled from 19 to May, 25 he also considers the EndurocXs: "The event has gone very well and I believe that it's a winning formula. An hard enduro race for all the riders with a special 'camp' created for them with music, food, beverage, open for the whole day for them and their family. A lot of them decided to stop after the first lap and to relax under the shade of the trees, some others continue. That's the right philosophy. We will go on, this is sure, we have just to decide if continue as collateral event to the Krka Enduro Raid or to organize him as event to itself”.